Snake Identification Question

[my3sonsagn]

Quoting Lewis Grizzard: There is only one type of snake in existence - the dreaded copperheadedwaterrattler.

Snakes give me the freaks, and I would gladly move up north to get away from them if my husband would let me. Since we live in GA (rattlers in the mountains, coral snakes in the south, copperheads and cottonmouths all over the frickin' state) we see quite a few of them. We've had three in our house at various times (I almost abandoned doing laundry and declared the house a nudist colony when I found one in the laundry room), and I just don't understand why, in a world where they have repellants for every other creature, no one has figured out a way to repel snakes from yards. Our fireplace doors broke once, and I flipped on DH worried about snakes in the fireplace; after giving me a "I can't believe you just said something THAT stupid" look (I get them a lot) and saying, "What? You believe in Santa Snake now?", he explained that snakes wouldn't be able to maneuver in such a way as to get down the chimney. I'm still not convinced, but he did at least fix the fireplace doors.

My aunt and uncle used to raise chickens, and a copperhead moved in on the path between the house and the chicken coop, so she asked her FIL how to kill the snake. He told her to pour gasoline down the snake's hole. Which she did. What he failed to explain was that the gas would make the snake run out so that she could kill it... she ended up with one ticked-off snake that she had to outrun because she didn't have anything to kill it with.

Anyway, OP, I feel your pain and I hope your house is now snake-free!

 

[disneymarie]

Me too!
I don't know what I thought the rest of the story would be... maybe here's what i found in my WDW resort room!!!

And please, if anyone has found a snake in their resort room, DO NOT tell me! Ignorance is bliss

Claire

I won't tell you about the lizard I guess. First thing to do in room, pull the bed from the wall and look for uninvited guest...

Well, I let this to the son and I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.

I found one at the Comfort Inn Suites Irlo Bronson many years ago and had to move to the Quality Suites next door....


I still do not get use to the snakes here in the Pocono area, mtns. As a police officer I would get the calls for snakes, bats, skunks and bears. Usually I said a prayer the snakes were gone before I got there, or have a young fire company guy get it out....

 

[disneymarie]

Quoting Lewis Grizzard: There is only one type of snake in existence - the dreaded copperheadedwaterrattler.


My aunt and uncle used to raise chickens, and a copperhead moved in on the path between the house and the chicken coop, so she asked her FIL how to kill the snake. He told her to pour gasoline down the snake's hole. Which she did. What he failed to explain was that the gas would make the snake run out so that she could kill it... she ended up with one ticked-off snake that she had to outrun because she didn't have anything to kill it with.

Anyway, OP, I feel your pain and I hope your house is now snake-free!

OMG I can so picture that, thanks for sharing,

 

[3boymthr]

Well, if it makes you feel better we've had at least 15 snakes in the house - luckily all in the basement (walk out - partially finished) and I lived to tell about all of them although I've been seriously grossed out by all of them. 1 copperhead (yes we have them in MA, they're rare, but we have them), a bunch of baby garter snakes - some living some dead - several milk snakes, a black racer and a few skins that have just creeped me out because they were several feet long and thick but we never found the snakes. Oh, and the best was the one that I watched slither out of oldest DS' backpack when he got home from a Boy Scout camping trip to ME - yeah, it traveled over 500 miles in his backpack in the back of a truck and had to decide to make it's home in my basement - we didn't get a good enough look as it quickly slithered under the wall and disappeared to figure out what it was and we still haven't found it (the skins all pre-date this snake).

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I am going to have nightmares now.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

Is it just me, or is the first picture of the Copperhead snake smiling at us .??

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I am sure I will have bad dreams for sure now. I already had snakes on my mind because my friend and I saw two baby rattle snakes this morning while we were walking. They had each been run over & killed. It was unnerving because our kids play soccer out there close by. I told DH to check the field real good before the game this weekend.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

We had a scorpion in our room at AKL on our honeymoon. Being from Texas, scorpions caused us all kinds of panic!

Around Thanksgiving, my daughter (3) suddenly ran to the back patio window and started yelling that the grass was moving and what kind of lizard was that? (In Central Florida we have lizards like other places have squirrels and mice.) It was a looooooooong black snake standing (?) up really tall above the grass right next to our slide! I mean I think it would have been up to my knees! We all crowded around the window and watched it get down and slither under the fence into the neighbor's yard. That's the only snake I've seen so far and I'm still paranoid about finding another one while the kids are out playing.

 

[gm]

last year i had a friend whose son in kindergarten was bitten by a snake at his kindergarten play area. He is fine and the parents were so relieved that it was not poisonous.

2nd encounter, we had a snake that left snake skin in our backyard. It was a large snakeskin too. I never thought about what kind of snake but it was black skin with some designs. That gave me nightmares for several weeks and I did not step in my backyard for a long time.

3rd I saw a large snake coming from a ditch onto the road and I almost hit it with my car but thankfully I swerved, I than saw in the mirror that a car behind me drove right on it and the the driver did not even see that but I saw the snake falling back in the ditch. It was a large orange snake with black design.

4th encounter, I saw a medium size black snake in our front yard, He was so fast and zipped right next to our neighbors yard.

too many snake encounters last year and now this!!! Why did I open this thread.

 

[disney_mommy]

Are we sharing snake experiences? I have a few:

A few summers ago, we were having a garage sale and my son and I were sitting in rocking chairs in front of the garage. All of the sudden, I see the garden hose moving, and I look over and it's a snake. I stood up and gasped, which made my son stand up. He looked over (he was closer to it) and screamed, which made me scream. He stood up on his chair (not real fond of snakes, that one) and the snake STOOD UP so it was about the height of my hips. It was very close to the garage and I didn't want it going in there, so I walked along the garage opening toward it and it slitheres back into the bushes in front of our house. Well, almost an hour later, a kindly stranger who was waiting in the car while his wife looked around our sale saw us hunting around in the bushes and offered to help. He managed to corner it, catch it and take it to the woods next to our house.

Last summer, a snake got caught up in the netting around my vegetable garden (which was put up to keep the squirrels out) and it had to be killed, it was so tangled up. Before I could take it down, another one managed to get caught. While cutting him out, I just cut the whole thing down.

 

[Debbie7452]

It really looks like a rat snake to me. Trust me..I'm sort of an expert. One year we had a momma rat snake lay eggs in the wall spaces of our house. A while later we had a bumper crop of baby rat snakes slithering all over the house. I am a snake-o-phobe already, so you can imagine how fun this was to live through!! I am not kidding when I tell you that this helped me decide to move, which we did...

 

[momof1princess]

I am not exaggerating when I say: If I found that in MY home, I would still be in the hospital from the massive panic attack brought on by such a sight

HOLY MOLY! if i found that #^@& thing in my home, forget a panic attack, i'd have dropped dead from a heart attack ON THE SPOT! i am VERY ophidiophobic, and can't even touch a picture of one of those slithering things in a book, without thinking it will bite me. my brother owned a ball python for 18 years, and i never saw it-couldn't even bring myself to look at it.

 

[SaraJayne]

It really looks like a rat snake to me. Trust me..I'm sort of an expert. One year we had a momma rat snake lay eggs in the wall spaces of our house. A while later we had a bumper crop of baby rat snakes slithering all over the house. I am a snake-o-phobe already, so you can imagine how fun this was to live through!! I am not kidding when I tell you that this helped me decide to move, which we did...

*muttering*

Why oh why oh why did I open this thread again???

 

[snarlingcoyote]

It really looks like a rat snake to me. Trust me..I'm sort of an expert. One year we had a momma rat snake lay eggs in the wall spaces of our house. A while later we had a bumper crop of baby rat snakes slithering all over the house. I am a snake-o-phobe already, so you can imagine how fun this was to live through!! I am not kidding when I tell you that this helped me decide to move, which we did...

Oh my word. I never thought of that. Up in MA, a garter snake lived under the flat boulder that was our front doorstep. In winter she'd live up in the wall next to the front hall radiator. Our second year, she had her babies in our compost pile. We were forever muttering about ingratitude and a limit to the number of snakes we were prepared to host and can you get a snake fixed as we scooped them up and tossed all the itsy babies in the meadow behind our house.

But now I'm thinking we should've thanked her for deciding on the compost pile and not the walls of our house!

 

[goofy!]

It really looks like a rat snake to me. Trust me..I'm sort of an expert. One year we had a momma rat snake lay eggs in the wall spaces of our house. A while later we had a bumper crop of baby rat snakes slithering all over the house. I am a snake-o-phobe already, so you can imagine how fun this was to live through!! I am not kidding when I tell you that this helped me decide to move, which we did...

Category: Best Snake Story

Debbie7452

 

[java]

It must be snake season. This is the second snake in house story I have heard about today. My friend in DE found a HUGE snake upstairs in her house! And I don't want to know what kind it is. It looked kind of similar to your but different coloring. I will not sleep tonite. I had to look up if we had snakes here in NJ and great news - yes we do 24 different types!

 

[gm]

OMG Debbie7452 U are only a few miles away from me in Spring on 2920. I just posted about my experience one post above yours lol. Are we living in Snake city USA

On a second note, I was cleaning my garage out today which is packed all the way to the garage door and I was watching for anything moving due to this thread

 

[cm8]

Snakes scare the heck out of me and I don't even know how I managed to read this whole thread .

IF I ever find a snake in my house/ he or she can have it and I will move somewhere else. I will not worry about packing and taking anything for fear of unpacking another "surprise"

 

[disney11fan]

exterminator is not a bad idea.

 

[bdcp]

We had garter snakes living under the steps from our house down to our garage. No big deal. They're not poisonous.

I leave black snakes alone because they eat mice and rats and other small rodents.

When I was about 5, I was walking through a pasture with my grandfather in NE Texas. I was getting ready to take a step and my grandfather grabbed me and stopped me from going forward. The next step would have been onto a Water Moccassin (cottonmouth). He then killed it. I was too young to appreciate the fact he kept me from being bitten.

All in all I have no real fear of snakes, I just don't want poisonous ones around.